2 Samuel 1:17

Bible in Basic English

Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David sang the following lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Hebrew Names Version
David lamented with this lamentation over Sha'ul and over Yonatan his son

King James Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Lexham English Bible
Then David sang this funeral song over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

English Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

New Century Version
David sang a funeral song about Saul and his son Jonathan,

New English Translation
Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

Amplified Bible
Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan,

New American Standard Bible
Then David sang this song of mourning over Saul and his son Jonathan,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then David chanted with this funeral lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Contemporary English Version
David sang a song in memory of Saul and Jonathan,

Complete Jewish Bible
Then David pronounced this lament over Sha'ul and over Y'honatan his son,

Darby Translation
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son;

Easy-to-Read Version
David sang a sad song about Saul and his son Jonathan.

George Lamsa Translation
And David lamented with this song of mourning over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Good News Translation
David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Literal Translation
And David sang this death-dirge over Saul, and over his son Jonathan;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Dauid mourned this lamentacion ouer Saul and Ionathas his sonne,

American Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul and ouer Ionathan his sonne,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

King James Version (1611)
And Dauid lamented with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

English Revised Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Berean Standard Bible
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsooth Dauid biweilide sych a weilyng on Saul, and on Jonathas, his sone;

Young's Literal Translation
And David lamenteth with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son;

Update Bible Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

Webster's Bible Translation
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son:

World English Bible
David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

New King James Version
Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

New Living Translation
Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan,

New Life Bible
Then David sang a song of sorrow for Saul and his son Jonathan.

New Revised Standard
David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then chanted David this dirge, - over Saul and over Jonathan his son;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.

Revised Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

THE MESSAGE
Then David sang this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan, and gave orders that everyone in Judah learn it by heart. Yes, it's even inscribed in The Book of Jashar.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David chanted with this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son: ¹⁸ (It is recorded in the book of Jashar for teaching to the sons of Judah) and he said: ¹⁹ The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low! ²⁰ Give no news of it in Gath, let it not be said in the streets of Ashkelon; or the daughters of the Philistines will be glad, the daughters of men without circumcision will be uplifted in joy. ²¹ O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil. ²² From the blood of the dead, from the fat of the strong, the bow of Jonathan was not turned back, the sword of Saul did not come back unused. ²³ Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions. ²⁴ O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses. ²⁵ How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places. ²⁶ I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lamented: 2 Samuel 1:19, Genesis 50:11, 2 Chronicles 35:25, Jeremiah 9:17-21

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:2 - mourn Genesis 50:10 - seven days Psalms 35:14 - I behaved Psalms 59:10 - let Psalms 141:6 - When their judges Ezekiel 32:16 - General Micah 2:4 - and lament

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

Job 38:12
Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

Psalms 8:1
O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

Psalms 8:3
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

Acts 13:47
For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son. Composed the following elegy on account of their death, and sung it in a tune agreeable to it, he and the men that were with him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words lamented and lamentation must be understood in the technical sense of a funeral dirge or mournful elegy. (See similar dirges in 2 Samuel 3:33-34; and 2 Chronicles 35:25.) This and the brief stanza on the death of Abner are the only specimens preserved to us of David’s secular poetry.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 1:17. David lamented — See this lamentation, and the notes on it at the end of this chapter. 2 Samuel 1:21.